Books

Two volumes, bound without half titles. Early half morocco, the attractive spines lettered "Eliot's Works" and the book's title. All edges gilt. Evidently from a uniformly bound set of first editions, but without numbering to suggest a sequence within that set.

Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published works of fiction appeared in 1858, consisting of three novellas based on the lives of different clergymen. Originally published anonymously, these stories mark Eliot's debut into the world of literature.